What am I doing wrong for morning hunts?

[Fish- N- Hunt]

I have hunted several morning hunts and very seldomly will see deer. I hunt very small patches of woods in west metro (5 to maybe 10 acres). I have been hunting the same areas for several years, with only two moring hunts being successful. But on evening hunts very seldomly I won't see any deer. Could it be possible that all my hunting spots, the deer are only active in the evenings? What might I being doing wrong, I am very confused. Any help or info would be very helpful.

Thanks

Fish- N- Hunt

[g man46]

Your area might be like mine. I hunt along a river bottom with fields covering both sides for a long way. Any morning hunt I attempt scares the deer that are on the field I have to cross. The only successful hunt I have had there is where the deer are across the road from the field I hunt on, and at early light they start crossing back without me spooking them. The evening stands are always the best up there though.

[bigbucks]

It's pretty tough to tell without more details. My cousin & I hunt a spot with a lot of oak trees along the edge of where an old grown over field meets the woods. That field has a 60 acre pine planting about 10 years old or so, although it was great before that, it's even better now. We've notice that the deer come by there in the mornings to munch on acorns on their way back from the fields to bed. They do the same thing in reverse in the evenings too, but we've had at least as good of luck or better in the mornings. Most of my morning deer have been shot in that area, but I've shot a couple of others & they were in the woods along oak ridges as well. Sometimes they're at first light, often there 1-2 hours past that.

One thing to remember is with a morning stand you might need exactly the opposite wind as you would hunting that stand in the evening. Also thermal wise it's better to hunt on higher ground in the morning as opposed to lower in the evening. That's just a rule of thumb that doesn't always apply.

[Mayfly]

This can be difficult. In my area it is always different from year to year. Some years the evenings are better and some the mornings are better. We've been getting better on their patterns though.

It's become obvious that once the evening and night approach the deer in the area head towards the fields. If we put our stands close to the fields the chances are we will see less activity in the evening becasue the deer move very slowly to the fields. What we did is just move our stands closer to where we believe them to be bedding. We started seeing deer through the woods coming toward the fields but by the time we saw them it was almost dark and they weren't even close to in range. We just started inching farther and farther away from the fields and activity has risen.

In the mornings the main fields in our area are littered with deer before sunrise. I hunt about 100 yds into the woods and if i'm lucky enough to be on the trail they depart the field on I will see deer.

When I first started bowhunting in my area I used to get as close to the field edges as possible. That wasn't working either way. So I moved into the woods. It always seems as soon as its too dark to shoot they always appear out of nowhere....

I've also noticed that its easy to pattern the does...You'll usually find them right on the trails. Its that **** 8 point buck that always appears in my corner of the field that slips by me somehow. Hard to predict.